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at BeyondSkool
About Beyondskool:
BeyondSkool aims to be the No.1 destination for BeyondSkool courses for kids aged 4-15yrs by building knowledge and skills in areas that are not typically covered by school to constantly expand learning and stay ahead. We do this through our programs, which are designed by experts covering both breadth and depth of expertise, delivered by certified and trained teachers through LIVE online classes on our engaging and interactive platform. Mission of BeyondSkool is that just like a school, to build a community of highly motivated BeyondSkoolers who have an infinite hunger of learning, which goes beyond school curriculum for continuously expanding knowledge and skills to excel and stay ahead.
Founded by experienced professionals and alumni of prestigious institutes namely Kellogg and MDI with 20+ years of experience in various industries handling leadership roles across business functions. We are at a stage of hiring our core team members who are young, passionate individuals with keen interest in making a difference in the education sector.
Role and Responsibilities
- Research, design and build highly reliable, available, and scalable platforms.
- Explore design implications and work towards an appropriate balance between functionality, performance, and maintainability.
- Lead by example, mentor, and guide team members on everything from structured problem solving to development of best practices.
- Own large technical deliverables and execute in an exemplary way
- Be able to conceptualize and develop prototype quickly
- Working with a cross-discipline team (Design, Product, Engineer, Operations, Sales, Marketing).
- Active participation in the hiring process to bring quality engineers in the team.
- Lead-out team meetings, stand-ups, and architecture/design discussions
- Writing bug-free code, participating in code reviews, designing/architecting systems of varying complexity and scope, and creating high-quality documentation supporting the design/coding tasks
- Identify areas of improvement in our frameworks, tools, processes and strive to make them better.
- Researching new technologies and adapting them to BeyondSkool’s requirements
- Own and commit to all your work, and be accountable for your results
- Using and understanding code from Open-Source projects
- Participate in a culture of code reviews, writing tech specs, and collaborating closely with other people
- Produce highly reliable systems that are thoroughly tested and benchmarked.
- Develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric infrastructure that operates 24x7
- Scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, and deliver with speediness and quality.
Qualifications and Education Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or any other relevant field.
- Experience of 5 - 7 years as a back-end engineer preferably in a microservice environment.
- Strong proficiency of Node.js and frameworks available for it such as Express.js
- Strong proficiency in Javascript and TypeScript
Preferred Skills
- Must have worked building 2+ backend system using node.js and Express.js
- Strong understanding and experience of creating highly scalable and complex database design.
- Good understanding of Data Modeling using RDBMS and NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis) data stores
- Strong problem-solving skills with a good understanding of data structures and algorithms
- Strong understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Experience of creating highly scalable, fault tolerant, resilient distributed systems
- Strong knowledge of creating scalable system design and good understanding of microservice based architectures
- Understanding of caching enabled, PubSub and event driven architectures
- Hands on experience and good knowledge of AWS services
- Understanding automated testing platforms like selenium and unit tests like Chai, Mocha, Jasmine etc
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
- Curiosity to explore the cutting-edge technologies and bake them in the products.
- Zeal and drive to take end to end ownership.
Senior Software Engineer, Java/Python (Bangalore, Remote option available)
4+ years of experience
Zepto
Why should you look at this role?
Salary 40-55 lakh per annum
Paid leave
Sick leave
Provident Fund
What Else?
- High growth startup in quick commerce space (10 min delivery)
- Given our very high hiring bar, we offer a very competitive salary and substantial equity to create everlasting wealth for our early believers as the company grows.
- Work on real world logistics problems & benefit from the rocket ship Zepto is!
Tech Team: 40-50 (200+ in few months)
About the Employer
Zepto is a fast-growing startup that delivers products in 10 minutes through an optimised network of dark stores that we're building across the country!
Just 6 months after launching, we've raised $160 million from marquee
investors in Silicon Valley and India. Our investors include Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, and many more! We’ve built out one of the best startup teams in India, with Senior Executives from Uber, Flipkart, Dream11, PhonePe, Goldman Sachs, Pepperfry, and institutions like Stanford, INSEAD, IITs, and IIMs.
The magic of Zepto is our ability to consistently deliver 2,500+ products in 10 minutes flat. It's the core of what we do, and the reason why we’ve been able to grow so fast with phenomenal customer love. Our mission is simple: to make 10-minute delivery the new normal.
Funding:
Funding Zepto has raised a total of $160M in funding over 3 rounds.
Their latest funding was raised on Dec 20, 2021 from a Series C round.
Employer Reviews:
“High Ownership, Lots of Learning, Broad Roles, Accessible Leaders”
"Alot of benefits like ZeptoJoy coupon, internet bill reimbursement and cab reimbursement is also taken care of. Overtime is paid."
Reporting structure:
Software Engineer -> Sr Software Engineer -> Lead -> EM -> AD / Director / VP -> Head of Engineering -> CTO
This role would be by and large a Individual Contributor role.
Interview Process:
- Round 1. Problem Solving + CS Fundamentals (60 mins)
- DS/Algo Problems (30 mins) - You can expect 1-2 Leetcode easy/medium questions
- CS Fundamentals (30 mins)
- Round 2. Low Level Design (60 mins)
- You would be given a trivial problem and expected to work through the low level design viz class structure, interfaces, db data models etc.
- Round 3. High Level Design (60 mins)
- You will be given a trivial problem, where we would work with you to design the system for the problem statement. We expect the detailed flow of the Functionality
- Extract APIs, if any
- Database choices
- Schema design and Scale the system, if time permits
- You will be given a trivial problem, where we would work with you to design the system for the problem statement. We expect the detailed flow of the Functionality
What You will do Everyday?
- Work very closely with the Tech Leadership and lead end-to-end development.
- Closely collaborate with product, design and business teams to understand product ideas and business needs and help deliver these as a series of ultra fast experiments.
- Architect and implement backend services with high reliability and scalability.
- Contribute to system architecture and database design.
- Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption.
- Write quality documentation and handle conflicts well to build consensus.
- Learn about new technologies and incorporate them.
- Mentor young minds and foster team spirit
Your Superpowers
- 4+ years of experience with Java frameworks like Spring / Dropwizard/Play or Python frameworks like Django/Flask/FastApi and databases like PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB
- Experience in building highly scalable customer-facing applications that involve implementing complex business flows and dealing with an ever-increasing scale
- Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and huge passion and ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
- Experience in service-oriented architecture design.
- Experience building at least one application from scratch.
- Experience with cache store/message broker like Redis / RabbitMQ/Kafka
- Interest in learning new languages/framework as needed.
- Worked in a startup environment with high levels of ownership and commitment.
- A growth mindset and passionate about building things from the ground up and most importantly, you should be fun to work with.
As a Java Developer, you will be responsible for developing cutting edge health-tech applications that include high scale transaction processing, intelligent bot based programs and data analytics.
What you will do:
- Building components for the company’s advanced health tech platform using Java, Solr, SpringBoot, DialogFlow
- Communicating effectively in a cross-functional product development team and presenting ideas and solutions effectively
- Prioritizing and managing workload and meeting critical project milestones and deadlines
- Effectively collaborating with a team as well as taking initiative and working independently to solve problems
Desired Candidate Profile
What you need to have:- B.Tech/ B.E. (with 65% marks)
- Expertise at hands on programming in JAVA and J2EE
- Proven expertise in Java interfaces with MongoDB (or similar noSQL databases) as well as relational databases (mySQL, Postgres etc)
- Experience in atleast one 6+ months development project involving SpringBoot and Hibernate
- Strong understanding of application server infrastructure
- Good working knowledge of Maven based build systems
- Good understanding of build and deployment pipelines that involve ANT and Jenkins
- Understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git or SVN
- Good knowledge of working on Rest API’s, Webservices
- Excellent problem-solving and interpersonal skills
- Hands on experience with Lucene/ Solr
- Familiarity with DiagFlow based chat bot building
- Knowledge of NLP
- Experience in product based companies
C# Developer - MVC and Linq, Entity Framework.
at Niyuj Enterprise Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
- 2+ years of experience on Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate in medium to large-scale projects
- Must have experience with at least some flavours of both SQL (MySQL, Postgres) and NoSQL (Kafka, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, NoSQL distributed cache system, DynamoDB etc), datastores in production
- Must have experience with Kafka or similar message queue systems in production
- Stellar problem solving skills
- Hunger to learn new things and ability to grasp new concepts quickly
- Ability to move quickly without breaking things too much (we are dreamers)
- Ability to work under immense pressure which is balanced by a sense of responsibility and ownership
- Should be able to groom juniors and take them to the next level
Responsibilities
- You will design and develop large scale distributed services
- You will analyse and improve the efficiency, scalability, stability, and security of the platform as a whole.
- You will act as the primary owner of one or more components while driving innovation in your area of ownership
- You will proactively research & evaluate new tools, technologies, and techniques to improve the value of the system.
- You will work with engineering leadership in solving and architecting solutions for challenging or complex development issues.
- You will work independently and handle dependencies with very minimal oversight
- You will take initiatives in developing and maintaining integrations of best practices within the back-end.
- You will help identify systemic issues, performance bottlenecks and work on design/architect improvements.
Requirements
- You have 1 - 9 years of experience in software development.
- You have designed and scaled up the system.
- You have a strong understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms.
- You are an incessant problem solver and tougher the problem gets, more fun you have.
- You have strong command in any one or more of the following languages: Python and Django
- You understand the business impact of your decisions.
Good To Have
- You have prior experience in fintech companies
Traits We Are Looking For
- Experience in a specific tech stack doesn't matter for us.
- The general engineering mindset and aptitude is what matters more.
- Technically strong and curious.
- Should have a hacker mindset and should love exploring new technologies.
Desired Skills and Experience
Java, Python, Data Structures, Algorithms
Technologies
Must have Core JAVA, J2EE, Multithreading, OOPS, and Multiprocessing
Great to have RabbitMQ, Netty, XML, JSON, Messagepack
Huge Advantage: Good at mathematics, statistics, complex data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
Other skills
- Ability to understand most complex and challenging problems and solve them from users’ view point
- Ability to create and present software designs (as per the aligned solution) to the product owner
- Ability to build and create modules from scratch.
- Ability to write, understand and deal with large code base
- Experience in understanding and implementing design patterns
- Ability to provide technical leadership to a team of equally talented, efficient and motivated engineers
Roles and responsibilities
- Responsible for solving the most complex and seemingly impossible problems related to variety of dimensions of software engineering. Dealing with Big Data to Complex Data Structures, From Inter Process Communication to sub 100 MilliSec server responses, From Distributed Systems to 99.999 Availability.
- Responsible for providing technical leadership to a team of 3-4 Engineers
- Responsible to drive delivery of a project/module and report to Product Owner
- Responsible for functional/technical tracking of a project/module
Responsibility Split
- 80% Technology, 20% Team management
- With 80:20 split this is definitely a technology oriented role suitable for geeks.